La Puente Municipal Code Ch. 6.70 Skateboards and Roller Skates

Sections:

• 6.70.010 Definitions.

• 6.70.020 Yielding the right of way.

• 6.70.030 Obeying traffic and pedestrian signals.

• 6.70.040 Skateboards and roller skates prohibited on disabled person access ramps.

• 6.70.050 Skateboards and roller skates prohibited in or on public facilities.

• 6.70.060 Penalty for violations.

• 6.70.070 Exemptions from the provisions of this chapter.

As used in this chapter:

“Public facility” means any building, park, plaza, courtyard, parking lot, walkway, path, loading dock or other facility that is owned or maintained by the city, any public agency or public school district, or any public utility. “Public facility” does not include sidewalks.

“Roller skate” means any shoe, boot or other footwear to which one or more wheels are attached.

“Sidewalk” means that portion of a street or highway, other than the roadway, set apart by curbs, barriers, markings or delineation for pedestrian travel.

“Skateboard” means any platform of any composition or size to which two or more wheels are attached and which is intended to be ridden or propelled by one or more persons standing or kneeling upon it and to which there is not affixed any seat or any device or mechanism to turn and control the wheels.

(Ord. 732 § 1 (part), 1996)

Any person riding upon or propelling any roller skate or skateboard shall yield the right of way to pedestrians on any sidewalk or crosswalk upon which it is lawful to ride or propel a skateboard or roller skates.

(Ord. 732 § 1 (part), 1996)

It is unlawful for any person riding upon or propelling any skateboard or roller skates to fail to obey any traffic control signal or pedestrian traffic control signal.

(Ord. 732 § 1 (part), 1996)

It is unlawful for any person to ride or propel a skateboard or roller skates on any ramp designed or built to afford access to buildings or structures by disabled persons.

(Ord. 732 § 1 (part), 1996)

Except as otherwise expressly permitted, it is unlawful to ride or propel a skateboard or roller skates in or on any public facility in the city. (Ord. 21-970, § 3, 2021: Ord. 732 § 1 (part), 1996)

Any person in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of an infraction, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of twenty-five dollars. A second and all subsequent violations of this Chapter shall be punishable by a fine of fifty dollars.

(Ord. 732 § 1 (part), 1996)

This Chapter shall not apply to any device designated, intended and used solely for: (1) the transportation of infants, or disabled or incapacitated persons; or (2) the transportation of goods or merchandise to and from the place of purchase or storage. Furthermore, the city manager in his sole discretion may suspend the enforcement provisions of this chapter to accommodate special events when so requested by the event organizer.

(Ord. 732 § 1 (part), 1996)